Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.